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The Institute of Demography of NRU HSE (IDEM) was established in February 2007. The history of the Institute as a research center actually began almost 20 years earlier, in 1988, within the walls of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The immediate predecessor of IDEM NRU HSE was the Center of Demography and Human Ecology of the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences. IDEM is a scientific and educational institution. The Institute’s goals: the conduct of fundamental scientific research, the improvement of its methodology, and the training of scientific personnel. Simultaneously with the formation of the Institute in 2007, the interfaculty Department of Demography was set up within it, and in 2009 the Scientific-Educational Laboratory on Socio-Demographic Policy was opened. A master’s program on demography is being run within the Institute.

In the issue:The demographic and economic context of pension reforms in OECD countries. When does old age begin? The pension strategy of the majority of Russians is to work until old age. Attitudes towards migrant workers. Hepatitis C and what we know about it. Lev Tolstoy on the causes of infant mortality and how to combat it. Scientific Seminar of the Institute of Demography of the National Research University Higher School of Economics "Demographic Challenges of the 21st Century.

In the issue: Rethinking the contemporary history of fertility: family, state, and the world system. Attitudes to pronatalist policy measures according to the data of the 2015 micro-census. Fertility in the republic of Moldova: European trends and national particularities. Normative attitudes to family and gender: Russian-speakers in Latvia and Estonia in a comparative perspective (based on the 2018 surveys). An evaluation of the prevalence of malignant neoplasms in Russia using an incidence-mortality model. Armenians of Russia: geo-demographic trends of the past, modern realities and prospects. Demographic development in the post-Soviet states. Review of the book “Demographic development of post-Soviet space”. Spatial pulsations of the population of modern Russia.

In the issue:The first demographic results of 2017 in the EU. 13 UN agencies will work together to fight tuberculosis, HIV and hepatitis in the WHO European Region. Surrogacy, adoption and organ donation - ethical issues. Investigative Committee defends rights of the fetus. 160 years since the birth of Peter Ivanovich Kurkin.

In the issue:Migration in Russia, results of the first half of 2018. How the Trial census works. Rosstat chief on Trial census. Questionnaire for Trial census 2018. World Suicide Prevention Day. Congratulations on the anniversary of Irina Alekseevna Troitskaya.

In the issue:Demographic results of the first half of 2018 in Russia (Part II). The number of deaths and the crude death rate have again begun to increase. In 2017, life expectancy at birth for both sexes increased to 72.7 years. In January-June, 2018, mortality from neoplasms and diseases of the digestive, nervous and endocrine systems increased. Mortality from external causes decreased by 4% compared to the first half of 2017. Among those who died in 2017 of some infectious and parasitic diseases, 64% had not reached the age of 45; among those who died from external causes - 44%. Infant mortality in the first half of 2018 decreased to 5.1 ‰. The reduction of mortality at working age has slowed down.

In the issue:Demographic results of the first half of 2018 in Russia (Part I). Signs of population decline are increasing - for January-June of 2018 the number of Russians decreased by 89,000 people (-0.1%), leaving a mid-year total population of 146.8 million. Natural decline has increased by more than a third, net migration has decreased by a quarter compared to January-June 2017. The number of children born in January-June of 2018 decreased by 4.7% compared to the same period in 2017. The decline in total fertility accelerated in 2017In the first half of 2018, the number of registered marriages decreased by 7%, and the number of divorces by 0.7%.

In the issue:Reproductive health policy in regions and countries of the world. IntroductionPrevention of maternal and child mortality. Family planning: an integral part of the protection of reproductive health. The level of teenage pregnancies remains high in many countries. Unsafe abortion is one of the main causes of maternal mortality.

In the issue: On the limits of application of the UN population projections. Population projections in Germany. Population microcensuses in Russia: past, present and future. Family and household in Russia: the demographic aspect. Rural-urban migration in the USSR in the 1920s. Alexander Kulischer on the demographic future of Russia. Precious children, poor mothers. From expanse to space: the search for geography in a book on geography.

In the issue:Forecast of the world’s urban and rural population, 2018. UN presents results of next revision of the prospects of world urbanization. In 2018, the urban population reached 4.2 billion people, or 55% of the world's population. Among the countries of the world, the share of urban population varies from 0 to 100%, but in half of the countries it exceeds 62%. The world’s rural population is mainly concentrated in Asia and Africa (89%). The number of mega cities with 10 million inhabitants and more increased from 2 in 1950 to 16 in 2000 and 33 in 2018. Nearly a quarter of the world's population lives in cities with a million people or more.

In the issue:World Demographic Barometer. Abortion in the world: uneven dynamics and unequal accessLess than half of women live in countries with legislation freely allowing abortion. In developing countries, the prevalence of abortion is higher than in developed onesLegislation affects the safety of abortion. Abortion is the result of an unplanned pregnancy.